There are many traditional stories in which characters are granted three wishes. what theme do many of them share? tell what makes "the monkey's paw" different from others.

Explanation:

Stories where the main character finds a special source that concedes -usually- three wishes are massively common. Frequently, those characters are low budget people wishing for riches. So, after their journey on finding the magical source that can make their richness desire come true and asking for it, the story has a happy ending. That is not the case of The Monkey's paw (W.W. Jacobs, 1902) where the wishes requested do not necessarily meet desired criteria and, the story itself doesn't have the typical "they lived happily ever after" ending.

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